Day: July 21, 2018

Since its founding in 2002, LinkedIn has quickly become one of the most popular video games of all time. It currently has roughly 530 million users, and was purchased by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.2 billion, the same company that also purchased two other trendy games, Minecraft (2014) and GitHub (2018). For those unfamiliar, LinkedIn…

Introduction I read a lot of deep learning papers, typically a few/week. I’ve read probably several thousands of papers. My general problem with papers in machine learning or deep learning is that often they sit in some strange no man’s land between science and engineering, I call it “academic engineering”. Let me describe what I…

By Liana ‘LiLi’ Ruppert – July 21, 2018 Good news, Splatoon 2 fans! A new batch of fresh Amiibo are on the way and ready for the holiday season! The three pack includes Octoling Girl, Octoling Boy, and a … well, an octopus. There’s a theme here. The new pack of favourite characters arrives for…

With the huge popularity of their retro inspired NES and SNES Classic consoles, Nintendo seems to be more protective of their content. Nintendo has been notoriously strict in protecting their intellectual property in the past. One example was the infamous “lockout chip,” or NES10 chip, implemented in the hardware profile of the original Nintendo Entertainment…

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins poses for a portrait in Chicago, Illinois, USA on 15 June, 2018. A’s fans don’t seem thrilled the team traded for a domestic abuser by Josh Hill Ninja is ready to go all night from way above Chicago in the first big event in his partnership with Red Bull. Not that you…

HDX Media has released a new trailer for Mega Man: Fully Charged, showing off the hero’s new show as it received a debut date this week. The show itself is basically a modernized version of every Mega Man game you’ve ever played, where our hero is in a world with humans and robots both living in…

By Tyler Fischer – July 21, 2018 (Photo: Capcom)If you’re a digital junkie like me, box art means nothing. But if you buy/collect physical copies of games, then box art is everything. And despite being a digital only kinda guy, even I can appreciate a good piece of box art displayed proudly on a shelf.…

By Liana ‘LiLi’ Ruppert – July 21, 2018 Too bad the first gun in the Overwatch Nerf line wasn’t revealed to be a D.Va weapon, because then we could say “NERF this!” and her voice line would make sense. Still, “Reaper here” in a grizzly voice has its own appeal, and the phrase “die, die,…